(Ebook) Elements of Cultural Continuity in Modern German Literature A Study of Goethe Nietzsche and Mann Gorgias Studies in Philosophy and Theology 1st Editon by Ramona Simut ISBN 978-1611439663 1611439663

(Ebook) Elements of Cultural Continuity in Modern German Literature A Study of Goethe Nietzsche and Mann Gorgias Studies in Philosophy and Theology 1st Editon by Ramona Simut ISBN 978-1611439663 1611439663

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ISBN 10:   1611439663

ISBN 13: 978-1611439663

Author: Ramona Simut

This book is a survey of the inner relationship between the most representative German writers and thinkers of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century: Goethe, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann, which examines the content of their thought as reflected in their attitude towards the arts, society, and politics of their times. Consequently, it is, on the one hand, a synoptic study, as it envisages the historical context of these three pivotal centuries and their strategic importance for the cultural and social development of modern Germany and Europe in general. On the other hand though, it provides a detailed analysis of the key aspects in the thought of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann, which led to the formation of common themes and concepts in their works and thus to the distinctive message they convey. The main purpose of the study is to prove that these common themes the condition and role of the artist in society, the non-exclusivity of art as related to politics, the need to transcend chaotic nationalist politics, etc. are in fact specific features of a direct Goethean heritage in the thought of both Nietzsche and Mann. This fact has two implicit conclusions. First, their message for society was ethical and visionary, representing the goal of their literary-philosophical productions. They were all searching for the meaning of the internal and external events in their lives and for the manifested opinions towards political turning points such as the French Revolution, Bismarck s Kulturkampf or the two world wars. Secondly, their ethical convictions are relevant to this day, as an increasing number of historians and literary critics try to find in the works of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann what can be defined as an answer to current inquiries which are similar to the ones in the past. After all, the art of writing is an art with a message.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction

2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the Cultural Configuration of the Eighteenth Century

3. Goethe and Naturalism: Science as a Passion of His Age

4. Goethe and Kantianism: Transcending the Reason of His Age

5. The Relationship between Nature and Art in Kant and Goethe

6. Goethe and Neo-Humanism: A Classic against His Age

7. Goethe between Wetzlar and Weimar: Escape and Return to Cultural Places

8. Goethe and German Culture: Preliminaries to Identity

9. German Culture and French Civilization in Goethe’s Time

10. Germany’s Freedom and Unity: Goethe’s Concept of National Identity

11. German Culture as a “Substitute”? Goethe’s View of Politics

12. Goethe between Literature and Music: Tempering the Heroic Ideals of His Age

13. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and the Crisis of Modern Culture in the Nineteenth Century

14. Nietzsche between His Life and Works

15. Nietzsche between Philosophy and Modern Music

16. Nietzsche and the False Nietzsche of Posterity

17. Nietzsche and The Will to Power: Gods against Modern Morality

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